How Technovestor started their logo design journey

Summary

We're looking for assistance in designing a logo, website layout, application Dashboard and small flash entry for a new product. Our company, REBusinessPro.com is a real estate lead management software. We're currently using it for business and now would like to take it public as a business management product. We're paying $1300 total for the contest and an additional $300 for coding if you're good at it.

Company name

REBusinessPro.com

What inspires you and how do you envision the design for your business?

Tagline:
A Complete Business Management System for the Real Estate Professional

Accepted File Formats:
psd

We're open to the design, color and layout. We'd like the webpage to have a high-tech look, creative feel, but easy to use. Because the software will be used by computer novices as well as the computer literate, we want to give the impression of high-tech and powerful, as a lot of features are, but yet not intimidating and easy to maneuver.

This contest is has several prizes for each category. The prizes can be won separately or one individual. Each will be judged separately, and we may buy 1 or 2 of the entries in each category, for another project. You can submit an entry for 1 or multiple categories.

Logo - $300
The logo should sophisticated but not over the board. Were open to the color scheme for now.

Website template - $400
Were looking for something high-tech, sort of futuristic, but not over the top. This is software that will be used in a business atmosphere, so it must be designed as such. This will be the page used to actually sell our product. Wed like a centered orientation while easy to navigate. Well be adding flash to it later, but thats not part of this project since were not sure which direction well be going in for that. Here are menu headings: Home, Products, Websites, Support, Contact Us [Shopping Cart]

Operational Dashboard and Operational Webpage- $700
This dashboard will be actually be used in our online software program in the login area. This will be the first page that comes up when the user logs in. On this page well include statistics and summary figures of their business. As weve mentioned before, were looking for a design thats high-tech and powerful, as a lot of features are, but yet not intimidating. We believe a way to accomplish this is through the use of icons with titles beneath them, and segregation of subjects through the use of color. Colorful pictures quite often give the appearance of something simple, yet very powerful. I dont want to limit the creativity, so Ill leave it at that. Ive attached a couple of examples of both so you understand what were talking about.

Here is a little more info on the Operational Dashboard. Hopefully its not overkill.

Below are some of the icons and buttons we like for the Dashboard:
(Lead Management, House Inventory, Private Lender Management and Customer Support, with be sub-pages that will use the same Template well call Operational Webpage)

Items at the bottom of the page
Number of New Leads (folder with people in it)
Total Active Leads
Total Purchased Leads
Total Archived Leads
Leads to Followup
Total New Leads Today
Total New Leads Last Week

Items on the Left Menu
Current Inventory
HelpDesk
Training Video
Open Support Ticket
Latest News

Entries: Feel free to submit entries in whichever category you prefer. Well do our best to provide feedback to each entry within 48 hours. The prizes will be awarded individually. No coding is required, but if you'd like to, we'll pay an additional $300. We reserve the right to end or extend the contest if needed but wed like to make a decision by Feb 15 at the latest. Of course, the winner will release the rights the design. Payment will be through paypal, but of course other payment options are available. Thanks for your time.